Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"It is amazing because it is very easy to test with many alternative bookmarks."

"When it works, it is the best product that is available."

"The technical support for Dell RecoverPoint is excellent."

"RecoverPoint can be depended on as your only disaster recovery solution without any need to mix different types of failover systems."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"Product is self-payable, and due to the data protection provided to the IT environment, we can reach very secure operational levels."

"The setups that we have in place are great."

"With RecoverPoint, we can instantly mount an image Point in Time in case of a problem, and the Recovery Time Objective was improved for sure."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."

"Scalability is one of the few drawbacks of this thing. They're still using Flash Player to manage, and now it is extremely slow."

"Currently the product does not support cascaded replication, only "Y" replication."

"The support is horrible."

"The product should provide integration with new products."

"The new Gen5 appliances have adopted the Unisphere management interface and it is written for Adobe Flash, which in my experience, is very slow and makes administration cumbersome at times."

"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."

"The initial setup is complex."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"It is considered quite costly."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."

"The product is fairly priced."

"The price is moderate."